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Quote by Stephen Dobyns

“A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.”

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Stephen Dobyns is an American poet born on February 19, 1941. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, covering a wide range of themes including love, death, history, and religion. more

“I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.”

People Thinking Way Trying Kind Feelings Might Language Levels Impossible Music Is Models Expectations Communicate Primaries Composition Chasing

Author:Terrance Hayes

“Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.”

Beautiful Lines Masters Complexes Fascinating

Author:Gerald Stern

“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”

Firsts Body Night Sun Psychology Tomorrow Towns Down And Fishes Astronomy Clock Biology Layers Rainbow Blanket Zoology Gazelles

Book:Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems

Source: Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems

“Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”

Ifs Want Needs Giving Return Repayment

Author:Lindsey Davis

“I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.”

Ifs Men Firsts Asks Given Grace Mercy Ask Me True Meaning

Author:Anya Seton

“Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.”

May Sound Views Effects Point Of View Doctrine Ruins Artistic Elderly Reticence

Book:Collected Ghost Stories

Source: Collected Ghost Stories

“If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.”

Ifs Feels Writing Has Beens Stories Purpose Hours Fire Dying Reader Walking Succeed Sitting Uncomfortable Solitary Nightfall

Book:Collected Ghost Stories

Source: Collected Ghost Stories

“Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.”

World Sports Forget This World Boxing

Author:Oscar De La Hoya

“I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.”

Thinking Body Term Crazy Rings Crazy Life

Author:Oscar De La Hoya

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